Tobacco and match box.



A. A. ZAWADZKI.

TOBACCO AND MATCH BOX.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 14. I918.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

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TOBACCO AND MATCH BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

Application filed January 14, 1918. Serial No. 211,784.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALFRED A. ZAWADZKI, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brainerd, in the county of Crow Wing and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco and Match Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to boxes and has special reference to a combination cigar or cigarette and match box. More partlcularly the invention relates to a box having a laterally sliding lid.

One object of the invention is to improve the general construction of devices of thls character.

A second important object of the invention is to provide a box having a laterally sliding lid so arranged that the lid and box will be provided with coacting means to re sist the excessive opening movement of the lid while at the same time permitting, if necessary or desirable, the entire withdrawal of the lid.

With the above and other objects in view,

tails of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated 1n the accompanying drawing, and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one end of a box constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the end of said box.

Fig. 3 is a section through the box end on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

In carrying out the objects of this invention there is provided a metallic box 10 having fiat sides and rounded edges. This box is separated into two compartments by a partition 11 so that what may be termed the bottom compartment of the box forms a match receptacle. Around the greater portion of the periphery of the bottom there is provided a U-shaped groove which is formed by bending the metal of the box outward as at 12 and again inward as at 13. This U-shaped groove runs froma point adjacent one edge portion of the box around the periphery of the bottom and back to a second point opposite the first or starting point.

The remaimng portion of the bottom of the box is cutaway on a level with the part of thegroove that extends outward as at 12, this being the side of the groove lying next to the body of the box. At 14 is a sliding closure having one end beaded as at 15 to both form a stop and constitute a continuation of the grooved bead wherein the closure slides. This closure has struck in the metal forming it and adjacent its inner end a row of corrugations 16 which are so stamped as to project slightly below the inner surface of the slide 14 whereby any attempt to draw the slide out and free it from the box will be arrested by reason of these corrugations engaging the edge of the cutaway portion of the box 10. In order to permit outward movement and inward movement of this lid when found desirable it is preferred to slit the edge of the box 10 as at 17 in order to form a spring tongue 18. By this means this stifl spring tongue will resist accidental loss or displacement of the sliding cover 14 while at the same time when necessary the cover may be entirely withdrawn and replaced.

There has thus been provided a simple and efiicient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that many minor changes Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

A combined cigar and match box having a sliding cover at one end, said box having an inwardly opening groove U-shaped in cross section at one end extending from a point adjacent one edge of the box, along the side around the other edge and along the opposite side to 'a point remote from the first end of the groove, a sliding cover fitted in said inwardly opening groove and closing meeeel one end of the box, said cever having a cencover may be entirely Withdrawn and re.-

tral portion stamped inwardly to provide a placed. 10 series of transverse longitudinally extending In testimony Whereef I e% my signature, corrugations the inner points of which ex- 7 ALFRED A ZAWADZKI tend below the upper edge of the box to prevent accidental Withdrawal of the slide enci Witnessw:

one Well of said box being provided with P B, Nemwom, a slit to form a, spring tongue whereby the J 3-1. NOBLE. 

